Op­po­si­tion Leader and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has paid trib­ute to Fer­die Fer­reira, de­scrib­ing his pass­ing as a “pro­found loss” for Trinidad and To­ba­go and the PNM.

Sources say no mo­tion was brought to re­strict for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment chair­man Stu­art Young from speak­ing with­out the bless­ing of par­ty lead­er­ship, de­spite ru­mours cir­cu­lat­ing be­fore the par­ty’s gen­er­al coun­cil meet­ing on Wednes­day.

As ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela con­tin­ue to rise, Venezue­lan Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is ac­cus­ing both T&T and Guayana of al­low­ing them­selves to be used by the Amer­i­cans to launch an at­tack against Venezuela.

Fer­reira, re­gard­ed as one of the par­ty’s most en­dur­ing voic­es and a well-known po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor, was re­mem­bered to­day by Port of Spain North, St Ann’s West MP Stu­art Young, who de­scribed him as “a PNM gi­ant and a pa­tri­ot”.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has con­firmed that teach­ers will not re­ceive a Christ­mas back­pay due to “staffing is­sues,” but the union is con­fi­dent the mon­ey owed to them will be paid ear­ly in 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and the De­fence Force have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion to de­ter­mine if four cam­ou­flage-clad men in­volved in a Mal­oney rob­bery and who fled in what ap­peared to be a Reg­i­ment-is­sued ve­hi­cle were sol­diers or im­per­son­ators.

As the search for kid­napped cou­ple Der­rick and Clari­bel Tardieu con­tin­ued yes­ter­day, Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ex­plain what she meant by call­ing the US$2.5 mil­lion ran­som de­mand “fishy,” say­ing the com­ment was “in­sen­si­tive.”

Head of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD), Su­per­in­ten­dent Dar­ryl Ram­dass, says the po­lice ser­vice re­quires new skills, new tools, and new part­ner­ships to deal with the rise in dig­i­tal vi­o­lence.

The de­ci­sion to fire Navin Dook­er­an from the post of CEO of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of T&T (Ex­im­bank) was done wrong­ful­ly and was gross­ly un­just, says Navin’s fa­ther, Win­ston Dook­er­an, a for­mer Con­gress of the Peo­ple leader and Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment Fi­nance min­is­ter.

Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get has made good on his threat to sue for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for defama­tion.

One hour of fire­works for the up­com­ing Old Year’s Night and the prospect of noise-re­duc­ing fire­works ahead.

Se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts are push­ing back against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s claim that an un­flagged ves­sel can be treat­ed as a pi­rate ship and at­tacked in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters, ar­gu­ing that her ex­pla­na­tion does not align with mar­itime or in­ter­na­tion­al law.